July 11, 2006 On the road to Mobile profiles Posted by at 02:55 PM | Categories: User in Sight

As I mentioned in my last entry there is enormous potential to reach unparalleled end-user satisfaction with well-working and easy to use solutions which make our family life little easier. Last weekend I faced a real world use case once again. The family calendar is definitely the thing but the offering could be even more desirable with couple of features more. One of those is synchronization of Contacts. And now I really emphasize the word easy-to-use and don’t count on solutions based on MS Exchange, not yet!

It’s pretty irritating (as I found out) to try to make phone call with your family member’s phone, just to recognize that you don’t know the people in the contact list or the number of your lovely mother in law is missing; I know it could be intentional but… So is there possibility to have feature that allows you to have intelligent synchronization of your contacts? Of course, you should have possibility to specify the numbers you would like to share with others. Maybe we’re closing the moment when our phones will work as displays and show the content stored in data warehouses, hosted by operators for example, but meanwhile some solutions in this field could make our lives little easier, I hope!


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"Maybe we’re closing the moment when our phones will work as displays and show the content stored in data warehouses, hosted by operators for example"

Not in my lifetime :) No way that I'm going to store all that private information on a central server of my provider. Just think of all the security and privacy implications. Besides that operators are guaranteed to charge exorbitant amounts of money for that feature :)

But some more intelligent syncing would be nice indeed. I'm not sure if being able to retrieve your contacts on the phone of someone else is a good use case though. It would be nice if I could easily sync my calendar (CalDAV?) and contacts with my girlfriend (or company) though. It would be especially nice if that info would be stored on one of our home computers with some simple app/server.

Sharing contacts with other people (like family members) is what you have vCards and BT for IMO :)

Posted by: Bart | September 2, 2006 12:40 PM


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